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I know that some issuers, GoDaddy, for instance, will no longer issue certificates with &quot;.local&quot; as a TLD for the FQDN.<br />
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So what are you trying to achieve? Do you want to have a certificate that include the .local name? Are you looking for a wildcard certificate - which usually costs more?
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I know that some issuers, GoDaddy, for instance, will no longer issue certificates with ".local" as a TLD for the FQDN.

So what are you trying to achieve? Do you want to have a certificate that include the .local name? Are you looking for a wildcard certificate - which usually costs more?

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ARe you looking for an internal certificate or external certificate. Internal certificate can be created by deploying AD CS role.
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ARe you looking for an internal certificate or external certificate. Internal certificate can be created by deploying AD CS role.

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I have a Remote Desktop environment running Server 2012 that requires a certificate with a 'server.mydomain'.local extension. &nbsp;What would be the best practice for eliminating the server name in the certificate file?
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I have a Remote Desktop environment running Server 2012 that requires a certificate with a 'server.mydomain'.local extension.  What would be the best practice for eliminating the server name in the certificate file?

Remote desktop certificate requires SubjectAltName with a .local domain extension

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.